The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang visited the Vera C. Rubin ...

The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

Because their orbits are unstable, a possibility exists that the asteroids could break off from their current trajectory and one day head on a collision course for Earth. The Venusian space rocks are ...

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it’s the only one we have, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson commented following the DART mission’s success in deflecting an ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New results from OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly ...

Simulations of asteroids near Venus reveal gaps in our ability to detect them. Astronomers are investigating a little-known and largely unseen group of asteroids that quietly orbit the sun alongside ...

An asteroid with the second-fastest unique orbit in the solar system—one that sees it traveling a complete run around our star in just 128 days—has been found hiding in the sun’s glare. Known as 2025 ...